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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
exsanguinate .
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Examples
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Don't let Hollywood glamorization and a trip's worth of old buildings desensitize you to a structure which once had its floor covered in sand in order to soak up the fluid of countless exsanguinated animals and human beings, martyr and gladiator alike.
Michael Yarbrough: A Student's Guide to Backpacking: Rome Michael Yarbrough 2011
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And for the first time since 1996, there's been a marked upswing in the number of people seeking cash assistance from TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families), the exsanguinated version of welfare left by welfare "reform."
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When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Researcher 1: And the room has to be 72 degrees and the cage 18 inches while the beagle is exsanguinated.
Can Technician Be Trusted Worry Nervous Animal Researchers 2008
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On the night Lincoln was shot, another would-be assassin put Seward's son in a coma and slashed the secretary of state's face so savagely that the doctor who saved his life said he'd "looked like an exsanguinated corpse."
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Jefferson's original draft is anything but exsanguinated, though.
Adam Hanft: A Geek's Fourth of July: Reading the Declaration of Independence 2008
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Reed had seen other victims who had literally exsanguinated—bled out—but not often.
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008
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When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?
The Mortal Instruments: Book One: City of Bones Cassandra Clare 2007
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A striking, graphic array of evidence in the two books strongly suggests that it was Hodel who, on January 15, 1947, killed actress Elizabeth Short, then surgically cut her in two and transported the halved, nude, exsanguinated corpse — the internal organs kept painstakingly intact — to a vacant lot, where he laid the pieces out as if in imitation of certain Surrealist artworks by Man Ray.
California Dreamgirl Weller, Sheila 2007
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Rabbits used to raise polyclonal Ab are nearly always exsanguinated at the final bleed, and anything used to make monoclonals is sacrificed as part of the procedure.
Can an animal rights activist accept medical treatment invented through animal testing? 2006
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